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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1987
August Schiele, Augsburg, DE;
Gert Kaustrater, Augsburg, DE;
Kuka Wehrtechnik GmbH, Augsburg, DE;
Abstract
In an apparatus for loading guns, particularly tank howitzers, from a rotary magazine containing the shells and positioned below and alongside the gun barrel, for simplifying construction and movement sequences a substantially vertical loading arm pivotable about a vertical axis between a reception position in the vicinity of the rotary magazine and a position below and upstream of the gun barrel is provided, the loading arm having at least one gripper for a shell and in the last-mentioned position is pivotable about an approximately horizontal axis at right angles to the core axis of the gun barrel into a loading position from which the shell aligned with the core axis can be transported by a rammer into the gun chamber.